Das Geständnis

Das Geständnis

2015 · 118 min · Crime, Drama

In 1988, the East Berlin homicide squad again and again encounters crimes that - according to the opinion of party leadership and state security - do not exist in socialism.

Directed by Bernd Michael Lade · Written by Bernd Michael Lade

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